Arthur Brooks

this meaning.

And that's what leads empirically.

That's what actually leads people to feel empty, to feel depressed, to feel anxious, to actually feel lonely.

That's the big predictor is what it comes down to.

We have a meaning crisis.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It would start by waking up when the sun is warm, you know, making sure you don't start your day like before dawn.

Make sure you start your day kind of when you get up.

Make sure that if you have an alarm clock, that it's your phone.

Look at your phone before you roll out of bed.

Then make sure that the first thing that you do is eat a bunch of highly processed foods, high in sugar.

Make sure you get your coffee in the first five minutes.

So you get a big dose of caffeine and make sure that you're looking and scrolling on your phone while you're eating your first meal.

That's a really important thing to do.

Make sure that your whole first hour is neurocognitively programmed to be on the screen.

Then make sure that you have a remote job.

It's very important that you go to work back in your bedroom and you look at a screen and you look at a screen all day long so that your colleagues are kind of squares on the Zoom screen.

And you see them sometimes in the clients and et cetera, et cetera.

And you don't actually know where anybody lives.

You don't have a relationship with anybody, right?